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New glitch in nuclear talks

Revived talks aimed at restoring the 2015 Iran nuclear deal have run into difficulties just days after they started, following a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has again escalated its enrichment of uranium. In the report, distributed to the negotiators in Vienna, the United Nations body responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme said Iran was enriching uranium to 20 per cent purity using advanced centrifuges at its Fordow facility – a place where the original deal prohibited any enrichment at all. The talks resumed this week in Vienna following a five-month hiatus brought about by the installation of a new, hardline government in Tehran. Iran did not deny the new enrichment allegations, describing them as ‘‘an ordinary update’’. Under the 2015 agreement, Iran agreed to enrich only to 3.67 per cent, and to possess only a limited quantity of enriched uranium for research and medical purposes.

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2021-12-04T08:00:00.0000000Z

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https://fairfaxmedia.pressreader.com/article/281822877083019

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